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Refugee Comic

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This is a comic saying that we are a welcoming country but then saying Don’t come.

Article 2: How to Make America Greater Again

This piece by Eduardo Porter touches on the aspects of wage in immigrants. Wage specifically pertaining to refugees from other countries making more money for the same job that an American would make. Porter enhances the fact that coming to America is better for natives. For example, a 35 year old Peruvian man working for the Peruvian economy would make around $452 a month. However, that same Peruvian male working in the United States would make $1,717 per month. Porter says that there are obvious reasons why immigrants come to the U.S and the main one being the financial stability that they gain once they cross that border. However, that stability stays within the one time that they cross opposed to crossing multiple times.

Porter also touches on the ignorance that our government specifically has to the natural human instinct to gaining more financial stability. He inserts an excerpt from a professor, “If trade deals were strictly about efficiency and growing the size of the overall economic pie… trade negotiators would drop everything else on their agenda and spend their whole time trying to strike a bargain…” If the government is so adamant about gaining stability, then why should they penalize immigrants for wanting the same? By simply allowing immigrants to freely cross the border could “double the world’s gross domestic product” (Porter 2017).

This strongly left biased piece leaves some good questions for the readers while including valuable statistics. The statistics still leaves the readers some room to formulate their own opinion. I think this is a well written piece, although I have some bias myself.

Porter, Eduardo. “How to Make America Greater: More Immigration.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/business/economy/restricting-immigration-would-make-america-smaller-not-greater.html.

Article 3: Inside Immigration Law

As someone who has a German grandmother who was an immigrant, I have become intrigued as to how the process of immigration itself has changed over the years. When I asked my grandmother about her immigration process, she said that the experience as a whole was difficult but she never went into depth about the difficulty. After reading the article, “Inside Immigration Law” I received knowledge about the ins and outs of migration policies in Germany over the years. The article begins with a testimony of an immigrant named Amira who came to Germany due to the frantic civil war. However, their application for a refugee asylum was not approved thus in turn they were deported to their state of origin. However, Amira never actually owned a residence permit which is why she and her family were not approved in the first place.

The article provides credible interviews with German immigrants that had a failed application processes. The article also provides in-depth research about why Germany has implemented an immigration law and how it has affected immigrants. The German immigration law categorizes migrants by code and by numbers instead of giving individualized attention. This is one of the main problems with immigration approval because people are looked as numbers. Throughout the article, 5 immigrants all with different lives and qualifications are patiently waiting to hear back to get approval. The study itself is about four months long and focuses on how German government actually approves those trying to move into the country. The study gathered facts regarding how the process is assessed as a whole and ways to change it to make it more personable.

Eule, Tobias G. Inside Immigration Law: Migration Management and Policy Application in Germany. Routledge, Taylor Et Francis Group, 2016.

Aslyum Article- Academic

My article was on LGBT asylum claims. It begins by pointing out that many of the people searching for asylum here in the USA are doing so to avoid persecution for their sexual orientation. It also makes sure to note the prejudice against people doing so, and the difficulty that comes in when attempting to prove it. Inappropriate questions and bullying often occur in the process of questioning and the article argues that this should be stopped and the asylum seekers be given the same assumptions that religious persecution asylum claims are given. The article explains the basics of the Immigration Judge (IJ) role and how they can either be an empathetic and informed helper, or an uniformed or prejudiced wall to entry. Either way they may end up asking questions that are uncomfortable or full on inappropriate, and often they are off-base due to stereotypes, during attempts to substantiate the asylum claim. The article also explains the basics of the asylum system here in the US, and what constitutes eligibility. It goes on to describe how some lawyers encourage clients to play up on and dress in a western stereotype of an LGB person, and how there have been criticisms for both this and the IJ’s relying on stereotypes and judging based on them. It further details the account of a young woman seeking asylum as an LGB person and the struggles she went through. The article continues on in this manner providing information from various sources to give a full picture of the law and its issues regarding LGB asylum.

This article seems left to left center to me, there is some empathetic language but also a strong basis in law. It reports with logic and facts but also engenders some sympathy for those going through the asylum process, particularly those doing so for LGB reasons.

Topel, Kimberly D. “‘So, What Should I Ask Him to Prove That He’s Gay?’: How Sincerity, and Not Stereotype, Should Dictate the Outcome of an LGB Asylum Claim in the United States.” Iowa Law Review, vol. 102, no. 5, July 2017, pp. 2357–2384. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=124842621&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Mistrust, Anger, and Hostility in Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Immigrants: A Systematic Review

This article analyzes Western societies and their growing xenophobia, especially towards immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Though Western society has already been known to displace and fear minorities and developing countries, in our postmodern society western societies are starting to witness major demographic changes because of the human displacement that they as a whole continue to fuel through taking actions that are not only ineffective but harmful. These actions include closing borders, enacting laws that place immigrants and refugees in detention centers, and other unjust practices.

The terrorist attacks on September 11 in 2001 done by terrorist group Al-Quaeda and the multiple, expensive wars that have followed as a result have only increased Western societies’ feelings of hostility, anger, and mistrust toward refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants, especially those from Middle Eastern countries. The constant mistrust of Western society has not only scared North America, where the attacks happened, but other countries as well such as Britain, Russia, and other Western countries that have increased border control. The stigma surrounding terrorism has been married to immigration and foreign insertion.

This article is a review of the overall system driven by the intent to gather additional sources and information to prove the presence of society’s hostile attitudes and feelings of anger and mistrust toward these refugees, as well as show that they may have a negative impact on their general well-being. It also aimed to identify whether society’s discrimination and negative feelings toward this population influence the refugees’ willingness to seek support from services
provided by the host society and, simultaneously, to trust the helping professionals who provide the services.

Article 2- Entrepreneur helping Refugees

The news article “70M People are Counting on this Social Entrepreneur to Succeed” was found on Forbes. This article was written by Devin Thorpe and was published on February 22, 2019. Forbes is known to be a neutral but has a slightly skewing right leaning bias on the media bias chart.

This article discusses the details of what John Kluge, the founder and acting managing director for Refugee Investment Network or RIN is doing to help refugees not have to pay for their travel loans. this company has aligned themselves with other brands and companies to help assist the refugees by “matchmaking” them with potential investors. This is beneficial since there are “70 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world.” That is a lot of people. people that are scraping to not be at the bottom. as Thorpe states it, these people are not living, they are surviving. which in my opinion, is not a way to live

A quote that stood out to me in the article was “Investing in opportunity for refugees domestically and around the world represents an opportunity for impact as well as for financial returns.” This stood out to me because it shows that even though Kluge is looking at this as a business transaction, he also sees it as an opportunity to help the refugees and assist them in process. this is not to say that they are having everything handed to them. many of the refugees have been displaced for many years and cannot live the way that they would like to.

Article Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2019/02/22/70m-people-are-counting-on-this-social-entrepreneur-to-succeed/?fbclid=IwAR3bZEaWshMp0tmLZL786-srsYeg0CLmBJdKTD5AwOICU5VO1HhllyAn3mk#5a3b6c7c61fa

Article Summary 1

The Article, “Yes Immigration Hurts American Workers.” The author of the article, George Borjas has a very opinionated view on immigration as a whole. In his article, he states that immigrants are the ones who are taking Americans’ jobs. His opening paragraph opens up with a summary about his studies and admits that he has been studying immigration for over 30 years. Trump has also used one of Borjas economic papers as a reference for the wall idea.

Borjas points out that immigrants value is slowly increasing based upon the amount of government assistance that they have. Immigrants gain more government financial needs oppose to natives. Immigrants also pay lower taxes than natives since they are new to the country. Borjas also points out that the “responsibility nationalist policy” also detriments natives. With conflicting views, policy fights can get violent which is why Borjas believes no one brings up the problem.

This article is overall a very opinionated piece. His word choice and anti-clinton views show that this piece has a right bias. His anti immigration statements like, “anyone who tells you that immigration doesn’t have any negative effects doesn’t understand how it really works” (Borjas).

Overall, I thought that this piece could have been written better if the author did not put all of his strong views on the table. Politic pieces that are written well are the ones that provide points from both the left and right side.

Borjas, George J., et al. “Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers.” POLITICO Magazine, www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216.

Article Summary 2

This article capitalizes on Trump’s statement that America is “closed” and “full,” unable to accept illegal immigrants any longer. The statement comes after Trump threatened to close the U.S.-Mexican border completely. In response, Mexico took legal action to close border crossings. The article continues to blame Democrats, often referring to them as “Dems,” and attributes the influx of immigrants to Dems “gaming the system.” The article fails, however, to provide specific examples of these claims. The article also continuously quotes Trump and his statements, saying, “They could stop them at the southern border, their southern border. And you look at what’s happening now. They pulled in fifteen hundred, one thousand five hundred yesterday they brought them back. They pulled in over a thousand the day before. Over a thousand the day before that today I haven’t gotten the number but I mean it’s a lot.”

While the article goes has several of these types of quotes, it fails to provide substantiated support behind Trump’s claims. Rather than providing any statistical evidence as to how America is “full,” the article claims that Trump’s actions are motivated solely by his desire for the safety of the American people, that illegal immigrants are somehow a danger to our way of life. However, Trump does not say that there is any stigma of fear behind his actions, but does say that it is due simply to the lack of space in detention centers. He gives no real reason for why immigrants are not welcome into America except for that detention centers are full.